Oregon: Boy Scout Biscuit Fire Salvage Logging

A 106-acre piece of property in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National
Forest was donated to the Boy Scouts of America’s Crater Lake Council
by Betty McCaleb nearly 50 years ago. After the Biscuit Fire roared
through the property, the Boy Scouts contracted with a logging company
to salvage log the area and split the money. The council maintains it
cut the trees down for safety reasons. However, some argue that by
salvage logging the property the scouts damaged the ecosystem.

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“With a lot of dead trees around, that would not be a safe environment. So as they were thinking about rebuilding property, they needed to take away the dead trees so it was a safe place,” says Crater Lake Council Executive Rick Burr. “Theres been a lot of scientific studies that find salvage logging hinders forest recovery and it actually can increase the fire and risk for future fires to
burn,” says Joseph Vaile with the Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center.

McCaleb requested that if any trees were taken out of the property,
more should be re-planted. The scouts, with the help of Josephine
County, planted around 6,000 new trees with a survival rate of over
50-percent. The council received about $130,000 from the logged trees
and $70,000 in insurance.

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